DAY 2 // MARCH 31


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9:30 a.m.
PANEL // Narrating I

IMPERIAL SELF-PORTRAYAL:
FIELDNOTES, COLLECTIONS, ARCHIVES


Chair: Freya Schwachenwald


Kathryn Ticehurst:
“A Portrait of the Anthropologist as a Young White Woman: Reading Tensions in Fieldnotes”

Philipp Müller:
“On the Scope of Biographical Research in the History of collections”

Arisa Loomba:
“Foreign Objects at Home and Away: Mobility and Materiality in Self-Fashioning and Imperial Careering in the Late British Empire, Exploring the Collections at Rudyard Kipling’s English Home”


+ 30 min. discussion

11 a.m.BREAK
11:15 a.m.
PANEL // Narrating II

DECONSTRUCTING IMPERIAL LIVES:
ART, PROVENANCE RESEARCH, CURATING


Chair: Stefanie Michels


Agnès Lacaille:
“A Congo of One’s Own? The collection of Jeanne Walschot at the RMCA”

Tal Adler:
“Using Artistic Provenance Research to Engage with Difficult Biographies”

Jonas Tinius:
“Colonial Neighbours. On Curatorial Footnotes and Narratives”


+ 30 min. discussion

12:45 p.m.BREAK
1:45 p.m.
KEYNOTE

Vanessa Opoku / PARA Collective

BERGE VERSETZEN /
MOVING MOUNTAINS


2:45 p.m.
PANEL // Researching II

IMPERIAL PRODUCTION
OF KNOWLEDGE AND IGNORANCE


Chair: Carl Deußen


Sarah Longair
“Island Collectors: Colonial Lives in the Indian Ocean”

Suha Hasan
“Deconstructing the Construction of History”

Nora Derbal
“A ‘German Orientalist’ in Aden: Decolonizing Methodologies through the Biographic Approach”



+ 30 min. discussion


4:15 p.m.BREAK
4:30 p.m.
PANEL // Researching + Narrating

DECENTERING IMPERIAL MEMORY:
IMPERIAL BIOGRAPHIES
AND INDIGENOUS AGENCIES


Chair: Richard Kuba


Shreya Gupta
“Colonial Coin Collecting Networks: Unearthing Indian Voices Through Imperial Archives”

Luisa Marten
“The Notion of Interlocution in Biographic Research Approaches”

Yann LeGall
“A Fish Who Goes Around in Togo, Comes Around in Kamerun”



+ 30 min. discussion
6 p.m.
CLOSING EVENT


tbd